GIFT GUIDE
Blitz your gift list this Christmas at these innovative and interesting Cambridge shops
CAMBRIDGE SATCHEL COMPANY Local entrepreneur Julie Deane started Cambridge Satchel Company at her kitchen table in 2008, with the modest goal of raising some extra cash to send her son to a better school. The idea – to make traditional satchels inspired by leather school bags of years gone by – was simple enough, but the response was nothing short of incredible. Within weeks they were featured in The Guardian , Vogue Italia and on the arm of every fashion influencer worth their salt, with The New York Times adding to the cacophony of praise by calling the company’s fluoro satchel the ‘Brit IT bag’. Timeless, brilliantly durable and beautifully made, these Cambridge- grown bags have only become more sought after in the years since, and we think they’d make an excellent Christmas present for a person in your life you’d like to treat. As well as the traditional satchels, the company now sells work bags, handbags, totes and backpacks, as well as more pocket-friendly gifts such as notebooks and purses. cambridgesatchel.com
DRESSCODE SHIRTS Tech meets fashion with Dresscode: a collection of unique shirts adorned with intricate patterns that take inspiration from the digital world, featuring cursors, binary code, pixels, glitches and other coding icons. Earlier this year, Dresscode’s Cambridge-based designer Andy Boothman revealed the company’s latest innovation, the ‘cash cuff’, which enables wearers to pay for items with a swipe of their cuff via a contactless payment module that’s controlled with an online app. It’s a simple user interface that allows people to allocate specific amounts of money to the virtual credit card, which can be monitored or switched on and off at will. Impressively, it’s the first time that contactless payment has been used in clothing, and we think they’d make the perfect Christmas gift for the style- savvy tech nerd in your life. dresscodeshirts.co.uk
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